Did my first grow back in 2020 with help from these forums. Was a newbie then. Had a few grows since then, learned a lot. Had crazy hauls. 1 grow is able to yield enough for 1 medical individual to last 9-10 months, using about 2 oz a month.
This time I'm doing some new things instead of the 5 gal fabric pots. I went ahead and bought a floraflex system instead of just piecing it together DIY like a lot of guides show is possible. I'm using the 5 gallon propots with the drainage pots. It has an elbow joint matrix bubbler which was an addon to the included T piece they give you, so if I decide down the road to up the tent to a 4x8, then I'm already set for 4 more plants. I picked up a little giant condensate pump to mostly automate drainage outside of emptying the filled drain tank 1 a week. I've got a 396 ecoplus pump sitting in a 20gallon craftsman container. It has a water fan(?) to cycle the container essentially 7 times an hour.. Im using the floraflex feed and have dosed the tank once so far bringing my ppm to 430ppm roughly with a pH of 5.9-6.0. The pH tends to swing every few days a few points so I add pH down as needed. The lights/fan/filter are the same that I used in my first grow journal.
So we popped sprouts on 11/15 and moved to their 5 gallon pots on the 16th. on the 17th we had16 gallon res mixed 3tsp v1 2.5tsp v2
420ppm / 6.0 pH 57* temp water (v1/v2 are the floraflex nutrients for all following references throughout the grow).
11/17/22 - watered til drain
11/20/22 - watered for 33 seconds allowing 1 qt run off.
Pics of them on 11/21/22:
Currently the 3 mains from Mephisto are looking gorgeous. little neut burn on the cannacheese cause it's sensitive like it's been every time I've run it but itll take the pushing well. My biggest gripe at present is the freebie I popped that most folks seem to call sour chem bears {(cdlc x 3bog) x sour stomper}.. it had issues with its cots and didnt pop its leaves for 2-3 days after the others had an you can see the size diff already. My current dilemma is whether or not I let it grow out, or if I pull it and drop in a Samsquanch OG I've germinated that looks like it's doing well off the bat.
And that's where we're at for now.
This time I'm doing some new things instead of the 5 gal fabric pots. I went ahead and bought a floraflex system instead of just piecing it together DIY like a lot of guides show is possible. I'm using the 5 gallon propots with the drainage pots. It has an elbow joint matrix bubbler which was an addon to the included T piece they give you, so if I decide down the road to up the tent to a 4x8, then I'm already set for 4 more plants. I picked up a little giant condensate pump to mostly automate drainage outside of emptying the filled drain tank 1 a week. I've got a 396 ecoplus pump sitting in a 20gallon craftsman container. It has a water fan(?) to cycle the container essentially 7 times an hour.. Im using the floraflex feed and have dosed the tank once so far bringing my ppm to 430ppm roughly with a pH of 5.9-6.0. The pH tends to swing every few days a few points so I add pH down as needed. The lights/fan/filter are the same that I used in my first grow journal.
So we popped sprouts on 11/15 and moved to their 5 gallon pots on the 16th. on the 17th we had16 gallon res mixed 3tsp v1 2.5tsp v2
420ppm / 6.0 pH 57* temp water (v1/v2 are the floraflex nutrients for all following references throughout the grow).
11/17/22 - watered til drain
11/20/22 - watered for 33 seconds allowing 1 qt run off.
Pics of them on 11/21/22:
Currently the 3 mains from Mephisto are looking gorgeous. little neut burn on the cannacheese cause it's sensitive like it's been every time I've run it but itll take the pushing well. My biggest gripe at present is the freebie I popped that most folks seem to call sour chem bears {(cdlc x 3bog) x sour stomper}.. it had issues with its cots and didnt pop its leaves for 2-3 days after the others had an you can see the size diff already. My current dilemma is whether or not I let it grow out, or if I pull it and drop in a Samsquanch OG I've germinated that looks like it's doing well off the bat.
And that's where we're at for now.
